Up to the 1980's KRFC had found it almost impossible to hit the headlines, even in the Fife Free Press. Two separate events, three years apart brought the club unrivalled publicity in the national press.

For many years the club had suffered from a punitive rates bill levied by the local council under national legislation. A campaign to rid amateur sports clubs of this financial burden took the name of Kirkcaldy to the House of Commons and onto national television before the regulations were changed to remove such clubs from the rating lists.

Media attention returned in 1990 when Kirkcaldy became the first sports team from Western Europe and any discipline to visit Siberia. This was part of a four game tour of the Soviet Union and included three games in the previously closed city of Krasnoyarsk and Moscow. This greatly heightened the profile of the club and paved the way for on-field prosperity in the decade to come.